{"id":148,"date":"2012-11-21T23:23:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/?p=148"},"modified":"2016-10-20T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T10:59:13","slug":"sha-512-hashing-support-in-glib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/2012\/11\/21\/sha-512-hashing-support-in-glib\/","title":{"rendered":"SHA-512 hashing support in glib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAlways feels good to close old bugs, even if done unintentionally. In one of the projects I&#8217;m working on, I ran into the lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SHA-2\">SHA-512<\/a> support in <i>glib<\/i> and decided to step in. It turned out that such support was requested in <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=602715\">a bug reported 3 years ago<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhatever the reasons, the good news is that the next release of <i>glib<\/i> will ship with support for SHA-512 hashing in <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.gnome.org\/glib\/2.31\/glib-Data-Checksums.html\">GChecksum<\/a>. The implementation strictly follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=fips-180-2&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CDMQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcsrc.nist.gov%2Fpublications%2Ffips%2Ffips180-2%2Ffips180-2.pdf&amp;ei=qFKtUMyJN8W0hAew7YDYAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNFii53bV1HzTrXtL4X-z90UR-34tQ\">FIPS-180-2<\/a> standard.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gnome.org\/ebassi\/\">Emmanuele Bassi<\/a> for reviewing my patch,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jak-linux.org\/\">Julian Andres Klode<\/a>\u00a0for merging it, and <a href=\"https:\/\/igalia.com\">Igalia<\/a> for sponsoring my dedication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always feels good to close old bugs, even if done unintentionally. In one of the projects I&#8217;m working on, I ran into the lack of SHA-512 support in glib and decided to step in. It turned out that such support was requested in a bug reported 3 years ago. Whatever the reasons, the good news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/2012\/11\/21\/sha-512-hashing-support-in-glib\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SHA-512 hashing support in glib&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7],"tags":[49,22,48,50,47,46],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome","category-hacking","category-igalia","tag-gchecksum","tag-glib","tag-gnome-2","tag-igalia-2","tag-sha-512","tag-sha512"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/elima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}